Ghana politics and election news

 

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it will not dissolve the 18-member Steering Committee it set up to play what it says is a key role ahead of the November election.

 

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the Founder of the International Central gospel Church (ICCG), Mensah Otabil, as a threat to national security and a secret supporter of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

 

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it is “ludicrous” on the part of the government to enter into a deal with Smarttys Production to brand buses with pictures of president John Mahama and other former leaders of the country.

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Cape Coast North Constituency in the Central Region, Barbara Asher Ayisi, escaped an alleged attack on Saturday after a man entered her house with a knife, a hammer and other weapons supposedly to attack her. The suspect according to reports, was severely beaten before police came to his rescue.

 

With general elections less than 11 months away, government appears to have conceded that it cannot turn the economy around, Obuasi West MP Kwaku Kwarteng has observed.

The stripped winner of the NPP Korle Klottey parliamentary primaries Nii Noi Nortey has vowed not to participate in a re-run of the polls as ordered by the party’s National Executives.

The Electoral Commission has inaugurated an election steering committee ahead of this year’s election scheduled for November.

The Centre for African Democratic Affairs (CADA) has said the Electoral Commission’s (EC) effort to sanitise the voters register by deleting multiple names from the Voters Register was unlawful and illegal.

The flag bearer of New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 elections,  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has bemoaned the culture of intolerance that is eating deep into the body politics of the country.

The Chief of Staff, Mr Julius Debrah, has expressed concern about intemperate language in the country’s political discourse.

President John Mahama has stated that the economy will become better and impact positively on the fortunes and living standards of Ghanaians, after he has been given a second term.

In life one must be courageous even if for a moment. True former general secretary of the CPP Ivor Kobina Greenstreet has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Party at congress on Saturday, January 30, 2016 but I dare say Ivor sowed the seed for the victory on 20 December 2014 at NDC’s National Delegates Congress in Kumasi, where before party gurus he fearlessly enumerated the hardships poor Ghanaians have been subjected to without mitigation.

The recent Transport Fares increments cannot be blamed on the GPRTU as the Government sought to do through National Petroleum Authority (NPA).

Suspended New Patriotic Party (NPP) founding member, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, on Tuesday clashed with a leading member of the party, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko on Twitter.

Defeated Convention People’s Party (CPP) Presidential aspirant, Miss Samia Yaba Nkrumah has defended her accusations of vote buying at the party’s presidential primaries and revealed she was considering going back to contest the Jomoro Parliamentary seat in the Western region.